Major Problems in American Women's History
by Norton, Mary Beth; Alexander, Ruth M.; Paterson, ThomasEdition: 3rd
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Pub. Date: 2002-12-09
Publisher(s): Wadsworth Publishing
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Summary
This text, appropriate for courses in U.S. women's history, presents a carefully selected group of readings that allow students to evaluate primary sources, test the interpretations of distinguished historians, and draw their own conclusions. Designed to encourage critical thinking about history, the Major Problems in American History series introduces students to both primary sources and analytical essays.
Table of Contents
| Current Issues in American Women's History | |
| Essays Manuela Thurner | |
| Issues and Paradigms in American Women's History Gisela Bock | |
| Challenging Dichotomies in Women's History Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham | |
| African American Women in History. | |
| Colonial Women in New Worlds DOCUMENTS | |
| Mary Musgrove Assists the Georgians in Dealing with the Choctaws, 1734 | |
| Mary Musgrove Seeks Aid from Georgia in Return for Past Service and Losses, 1747 | |
| Father Juan Sanz de Lezauacute;n Reports a Comanche Raid in New Mexico, 1747 | |
| Father Pedro Serrano Describes the Treatment of Captive Indian Women in New Mexico, 1761 | |
| Israel and Mary Wilkinson Describe the Relationship of Sara Muckamugg and Aaron, an African American Man, 1771 | |
| Rhode Island Prohibits Whites from Marrying People of Color, 1798 | |
| Essays | |
| Captivity in the New Mexico Borderlands | |
| Mary Musgrove and the Sexual Politics of Race and Gender in Georgia | |
| A Case Study of Indian and African American Intermarriage in Colonial New England | |
| The Economic Roles of Women in the Northern Colonies Documents | |
| Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker, a Wealthy Philadelphian, Describes Her Work and That of Other Women, 1758-1794 | |
| Ruth Henshaw, a Massachusetts Teenager, Records Her Work in 1792 | |
| Essays | |
| Gender, Work, and Wages in Colonial New England | |
| Women's Work in Colonial | |
| The Impact of the American Revolution DOCUMENTS | |
| Abigail and John Adams Discuss "Remembering the Ladies," 1776 | |
| The Patriot Esther DeBerdt Reed Describes the "Sentiments of an American Woman,", 1780 | |
| Thomas Jefferson's Slaves Join the British, 1781 | |
| Sarah Osborn, a Camp Follower, Recalls the Revolution, 1837 | |
| Essays | |
| The Negative Impact of the American Revolution on White Women | |
| The Positive Impact of the American Revolution on White Women | |
| The Mixed Legacy of the American Revolution for Black Women | |
| White Women and Politics in the Antebellum Years Documents | |
| A Correspondent of the Richmond Enquirer Satirizes the Political Role of "the Ladies of Richmond," 1840 | |
| Two Commentators Deride Virginia Whig Women's Plan to Erect a Statue to | |
| Elizabeth McClintock and Elizabeth Cady Stanton Defend teh seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, 1848 | |
| Editor of Godey's Lady's Book, Praises Women's Indirect Political Influence, 1852cSarah Josepha Hale | |
| Two Men Debate Women's Proper Role, 1853–1854 | |
| Henry Mills Alden, the Editor of Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Attacks Women's Rights, 1853. | |
| Anson Bingham Responds in The Lily, 1854 ESSAYS Paula Baker, White Women's "Separate Sphere" and Their Political Role, 1780–1860 Elizabeth R. Varon, White Women and Party Politics in Antebellum Virginia Nancy Isenberg, Women's Rights and the Politics of Church and State in Antebellum America | |
| Women and Slavery Documents | |
| Lydia White, A Philadelphia Shopkeeper, Refuses to Carr the Products of Slave Labor in | |
| "A.F.M.," a Young Rhode Island Girl, Exhorts "the Daughters of New England" to Oppose Slavery, 1832 | |
| Frances Ellen Watkins (Harper), a Freeborn Black Poet, Pleads, "Bury Me in a Free Land," 1858 | |
| Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas, a Plantation Mistress, Discusses Interracial Sexual Relationships, 1858 | |
| Mary Still, a Prominent Black Abolitionist, and Other Free Women in Philadelphia Form the "Female Publication Society" to Promote the Moral Uplift of Free and Enslaved African Americans, 1861 | |
| Pauli Murray Recounts the Rape of Her Enslaved Great-Grandmother in 1844 ESSAYS Catherine Clinton, Sexuality in Black and White Shirley J. Yee, Free Black Women in the Abolitionist Movement Julie Roy Jeffrey, Ordinary Women in the Antislavery Movement | |
| White Women in the Civil War Crisis Documents | |
| Maria Daly, a New Yorker, Criticizes Southern Women and Records the War Work of Her Acquaintances, 1862 | |
| The Louisianian Sarah Morgan Proudly Proclaims Herself a Rebel, 1863 | |
| Caroline Kirkland Offers "a Few Words in Behalf of the Loyal Women of the United States," 1863 | |
| Ella Gertrude Clanton Thomas Describes Conditions in the Confederacy and Criticizes Northern Women, 1865 | |
| Mary Livermore Recalls Northern Women's Response to the Beginning of the Civil War, 1890 Essays LeeAn Whites, Southern White Women and the Burdens of War Jeanie Attie, Northern White Women and the Mobilization for War | |
| Women in the Trans-Mississippi Frontier West | |
| Documents | |
| A Citizen Protests the Rape of Indian Women in California, 1862 | |
| An Old Woman Recalls Her Life in Hispanic California in the Early Nineteenth Century, 1877 | |
| Zitkala-Sa Travels to the Land of the Big Red Apples, 1884 | |
| Mrs. A.M. Green's Account of Frontier Life, 1887 | |
| Sadie Martin's Memories of Desert Life, 1888 | |
| Leong Shee's Testimony to an Immigration Official in San Francisco, 1893 ESSAYS Coll-Peter Thrush and Robert H. Keller, Jr., The Life and Murder Trial of a Native American Woman in the Pacific Northwest Judy Yung, Chinese Women in Nineteenth-Century San Francisco | |
| Work and Work Cultures in the Era of the "New Woman," 1880–1920s | |
| Rose Cohen Describes Her First Job in New York City, 1892. | |
| Gertrude Stuart Baillie Asks, "Should Professional Women Marry?" 1894 | |
| Fannie Barrier Williams Describes the "Problem of Employment for Negro Women," 1903 | |
| Harriet Brunkhurst Laments the Home Problems of "Business Girls," 1910 | |
| The Survey Reports on a Protest of Unemployed Women in New York City, 1914 | |
| College Women Offer Patriotic Service in Agriculture During World War I | |
| Elizabeth Jones Praises Negro Women in the Nursing Profession, 1923 | |
| Marion Bonner Reports on the Women of the Southern | |
| Textile Strikes, 1929 | |
| Community Life and Work Culture Among African American Domestic Workers in Washington, D.C., 1910–1940 | |
| The Working Lives of Jewish Immigrant Daughters in Urban America, 1900–1920 | |
| The "New Woman" in Public Life and Politics, 1900–1930 DOCUMENTS | |
| Mary Church Terrell Praises the Club Work of Colored Women, 1901 | |
| Mary Church Terrell Describes Lynching from a Negro's Point of View, 1904 | |
| Endorses Votes for Women, 1908 | |
| Margaret Dreier Robins Describes the Purposes of the Women's Trade Union League, 1909 | |
| The California Supreme Court Upholds an Eight-Hour Law for Women, 1912 | |
| Mary Ritter Beard Defends the Place of the Congressional Union in the Suffrage Movement, 1916 | |
| Two Statements on Race Relations. Women's Council of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, 1920; Southeastern Federation of Colored Women's Clubs, 1921 | |
| Elsie Hill and Florence Kelly Take Opposing Positions on a Proposed Woman's Equal Rights Bill, 1922 | |
| Elsie Hill Explains Why Women Should Have Full Legal Equality, 1922; Florence Kelly Explains Her Opposition to Full Legal Equality, 1922 Essays Kathryn Kish Sklar | |
| Differences in the Political Cultures of Men and Women Reformers During the Progressive Era Glenda Elizabeth Gilmore | |
| Diplomats to the White Community: African American Women in Progre | |
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